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Apr.16.2013
Vân, Cúc, Trúc, and Trang; Dũng, Dai, Khôi and Phát. In my mother tongue these names carry music, cadence, poetry. They evoke...
May.19.2013
In a recent post on The Red Room, Orna B. Raz makes a very interesting case for the fiction writer’s ability to...
May.22.2013
I hate it when I don't blog. My brain gets clogged up with ideas and thoughts and irrational behaviour sets in. I start ranting...
May.01.2013
I was surprised to see in the English version of "Love" that the young poet (she was 23 when her first book The Love of...
May.16.2013
My late father-in-law built a birdhouse for our yard. It was a simple thing—a box, painted dark brown, with a peaked roof, a...
May.09.2013
What’s in a name? I began thinking of my name – Travers – because on Thursday, May 24, the Examiner ran a piece, written by Dave...
May.16.2013
Southernisms.  I am sure there are Northernisms but I was born and bred in the South and have no idea what those would be....
May.22.2013
They hacked a soldier to death. What was as bad as the spectacle of TV anchors giving tantalising sound bites about the...
May.20.2013
What I Learned From My Husband about Being a Good Man, a Great Husband and An Awesome Father By Bernadette A. Moyer What I...
May.19.2013
“The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”  While bedridden with...
May.17.2013
The 2012 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant enabled me to bring writing workshops into twelve non-profit...
May.14.2013
But what about us? It’s a question of which white folks seem never to tire when discussing subjects like affirmative action...
May.11.2013
I want my mean, bitchy, drunk mother back. The mother who was depressed and melancholy, who said cruel things about my work and...
Apr.26.2013
          Why, people ask, do I wander the world?  Why do my wife and I spend...
May.09.2013
My mother did not like Mother’s Day.  All I can remember was her calling it a Hallmark Holiday.  She said it was just a...
Mar.18.2013
We first met Caroline Leavitt at the Miami Book Festival. If you ever have the chance to go to the Miami Book Festival, do...
May.19.2013
Except for the peerless blue of the sky the world is black and white. The sun blasts all color from the streets ricocheting it up...
Apr.30.2013
I remember May Day fun, all of us kids smiling and laughing, holding onto ribbons, dancing around a decorated pole, going over...
May.02.2013
I knew it would not be easy; nothing ever is. But there was a moment, a single moment, when fear overwhelmed me. What was I about...
May.12.2013
Why is it that some books have you eagerly turning the pages after your bedtime and other books work like sleeping pills? Partly...
Apr.30.2013
I have been a nearly lifelong doubter. Not a nonbeliever, but not a believer, either. I’ve dipped my toes into more faiths than I...
May.08.2013
I stare into his eyes, icy covered blues with white lines. Bruises under his eyes and short blonde hair, standing on a stained...
Apr.28.2013
In what was a culinary first for pastry chefs everywhere, Baking Expert Chef E has done it again. Chef E, who trained at the...
May.14.2013
Over the past few months, five people I have known have died---two were in their eighties but two were in their sixties(my decade...

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May.18.2013
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May.21.2013
I’m lucky. I feel lucky today, with sun streaming to one side of me, radiating onto my hand as it meanders across this page, and...
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